Cool idea. I'm surprised the article didn't mention any recordings about the WTC bombing that year. I was in NYC at the time.

The television transmitters were on top of the WTC tower they tried to bomb, and for whatever reason the damage in the garage knocked them offline. That weekend, there was a huge snowstorm, one of those "once in 20 years" storms. And my furnace went out. So I was stuck in the house with no heat and no tv for the weekend. No fun.

MisterRonbo:Cool idea. I'm surprised the article didn't mention any recordings about the WTC bombing that year. I was in NYC at the time.

The television transmitters were on top of the WTC tower they tried to bomb, and for whatever reason the damage in the garage knocked them offline. That weekend, there was a huge snowstorm, one of those "once in 20 years" storms. And my furnace went out. So I was stuck in the house with no heat and no tv for the weekend. No fun.

I was about six blocks away during the first bombing attempt, and also suffered through that Nor'easter. I feel ya.

"The number of homicides in the city - 1,960 in 1993 - had already dropped from a high of 2,245 in 1990 but has plunged steeply since then. (There were 414 in all of last year {2012}.)"

I do not like the part about how BIG corporations have pushed out the 'little guy/individual merchant' but the stats from the quote above are wonderful! 414 is still too many but compared to 1990 and even 1993 it is a huge difference.

ISO15693:"The rats were huge," he says. "They were as big as cats, so you had to walk in the middle of the street. It's amazing what they turned it into. It's cool but it's lost its, like, authenticity."

Only New Yorkers miss the days of gigantic rats roaming and threatening pedestrians, because that felt "authentic"

I wonder how the feel also of the loss of the peep-shows, and adult theaters?